Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Mr. MacDonald shuttled to the hotel to see the ailing Ragheb Bey Nashashibi. By then the Defense Leader was so miserable that he sent out word that he was sound asleep. To open his eyes, Mr. MacDonald sent him a bunch of big red roses...
Last May 11. under the leadership of one Belmiro Valverde, Brazil's Fascist Integralistas put on their green shirts under fake naval uniforms and spilled a lot of red blood (mostly their own) trying to take over President Getulio Vargas' Government. They failed, and their leaders were jailed. Several months later, Field Commander Valverde, with the prison guards' connivance, walked out of jail, disappeared...
...moment when Cardinal Pacelli declared the Pope truly dead, a new order, rigidly governed by ancient protocol, was in force in the Vatican. Cardinal Pacelli, now Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the Holy Roman Church, was given the Ring of the Fisherman from the Pope's finger. Placed in a red silk bag, the ring was later broken, as symbol that there was an interregnum in the affairs of the Church. Aside from Cardinal Penitentiary Lauri, in charge of the Pope's funeral, and Camerlengo Pacelli, administrator of the Church and head of the approaching conclave of Cardinals, all papal...
Garbed by the Penitentiaries in white soutane, red cape and hood, the body of Pius XI was raised upon a velvet and gold catafalque, carried in a slow cortege to the Sistine Chapel. There, dwarfed by the surging figures of Michelangelo's vast Last Judgment, the Pope lay in state while dignitaries of the Church, diplomats. Crown Prince Umberto (for the Italian royal family) and Count Galeazzo Ciano (for Mussolini) paid homage. Next day the Pope's body was carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square...
...weak to take his daily drive, the Pope would have little to do with doctors, preferred to have his valet try "home remedies" to ease his pain. He ate only soft, bland foods: boiled chicken, thin vegetable soups, small amounts of rice pudding, occasional sips of red wine or champagne. Last November he had another serious attack of cardiac asthma, often had to get out of bed at night and sit in an armchair to relieve his coughing spells...